But if you cannot see the distinction between fun and work in any field, the problem is not the tool, but the user.

<ot>

In fact, the problem is that as of how this society is built more or less worldwide, work is not fun. Far from being... actually the little anarchist in me (for various reasons too long to be exposed here I don't really consider myself to be an anarchist) shouts out loud that work doesn't work being it mostly a tool of coercion, out of a bunch of similar and connected ones, for a privileged set of people to keep vast masses under control, without even letting them know thanks to the anesthesia given by some common bourgeois myths like:

In fact I disdain (the bourgeois conception of) "work", but whenever I bring this up people tend to just thing: so you simply don't want to work. Funnily enough, in my working experiences I've always been greately appreciated and at times even considered a stakhanovite2, but that's not the point: some people think that a better society can actually exist, and that it is worth to delve resources to bring the current ones towards it. As far as I'm concerned, when I'm optimist I think: well, maybe in a distant future I will never see... But what I regret, cotemn and feel like fighting with all of my forces is the conception brought forth by the hype they're selling us, and I say "selling" because we have to pay for it, and precisely that this is the best of possible worlds and that we're "free". People may happily disagree with me and as this is a matter of personal opinions I won't insist for big, and pointless, fights are to get out of a similar discussions: what saddens me is that they most often don't get it a priori of disagreeing. I expect quite a lot of downvotes already.

<ot>

1In Italian it's spelt like "il lavoro nobilita l'uomo" and I don't know if it's just as widespread abroad, but I expect some simple variation of it to be.

2In the loose sense of the word, as is commonly used in Italy, don't know elsewhere.

In reply to Re^5: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by blazar
in thread Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by oyse

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